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    minimizing hurt in a poly arrangement & other basic qs

    Thank you all! redpepper, you're right. Exclusivity and commitment are different things. I appreciate the reminder of that. I appreciate your idea about hurt as an opportunity, as well. Inspiring stuff :) I think I just keep hitting social conditioning in my head about it, is all. I feel...
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    minimizing hurt in a poly arrangement & other basic qs

    This is my first stab at poly done the right way. So far, so good, but then the rest of the truly poly side of it hasn't quite manifested yet. The second person in the V has only recently started moving us toward that, and as I prefer for the other party to set the pacing in the beginning, I...
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    some questions about jumping into things

    :D LOL!! So the privacy thing. (I don't want to clog the board with lots of threads so I'll ask here.) I imagine there's others who for various reasons need to keep your intimate lives private. Is there any advice you would offer to navigate something like that? Both in terms of meeting...
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    some questions about jumping into things

    Ha! I've already found myself nodding to a lot of your posts around here :)
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    some questions about jumping into things

    What a warm welcome, thank you! Aha yes I can see that. They may be selecting for a single partner. At this point I'm single anyway, and more just looking at the possibility of identifying as poly with my next partner, whether or not it is the person I referred to above. Wow, yeeps. Not...
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    some questions about jumping into things

    Hi all, So I have toyed with poly for several months but haven't had a poly relationship. I'm bi, had a couple of FMF threesomes but they weren't very poly flavored... at least not the sort of openness and trust and enjoyment that I would imagine could come into a poly triad connection. I've...
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    howdy!!

    Hi all, I have played with the notion of poly for several months now, and I am coming around to connect with others open to the lifestyle. I've never had a poly relationship but I am fascinated by the idea of being with a partner or partners from a place of choice instead of fear/lack. I'm bi...
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